Welcome to the first
edition of a new series of monthly bulletins for allied health professionals.
The aim of these bulletins will be to provide a practical and up-to-date
summary of the latest developments in the allied health professions,
with contact points or links should you require further information.
Any feedback would be appreciated - please contact Head of Policy Therapy
Services Avril Imison at avril.imison@doh.gsi.gov.uk
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Strategy
Implementation Steering Group
A top-level strategy
implementation steering group has been established which includes
AHP representatives from the Departments of Health, the NHS and the
regulatory bodies, as well as the members of the Secretary of State's
Task Forces leading the work on implementing the NHS Plan. The project
group will work with key statutory, professional, health service and
educational interests to ensure delivery of a range of objectives:
- Increasing
staff numbers
- Improving working
lives
- Modernising
pay
- Modernising
education & training
- New ways of
working
- Leadership
For more information
contact Leo Doherty at Leo.Doherty@doh.gsi.gov.uk
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Education
and Training
The Modernising
AHP Education Group has introduced a modernisation and training agenda
for four main groups within the allied health professions - radiography,
occupational therapy, physiotherapy and chiropody.
- Existing training
is being examined so that gaps or problem areas can be identified.
- During the
2001/02 academic year, we shall be introducing more flexible pre-registration
education courses. The programmes will feature more opportunities
to step on and off courses, more part-time courses and more opportunities
for shared learning. Over £3 million is being made available to
support this. The Higher Education sector has been notified of our
intention and we are working with the professional bodies and CPSM
Boards to refine our proposals and in, due course, to examine the
scope for rolling out these changes out more widely.
For further information
e-mail Filao Wilson at filao.wilson@doh.gov.uk.
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Recruitment
and Retention
14,000 letters
were sent out on March to radiographers who have let their registration
lapse to invite them to return. In addition, for the first time ever,
the allied health professions have been included within the NHS Careers
Service and have their own careers publication, Building Careers (www.doh.gov.uk/pdfs/buildingcareers.pdf)
There is also
an ongoing awareness campaign to raise the profile of careers in the
allied health professions in schools.
For more information
on recruitment and retention issues contact Amanda Wylie at Amanda.Wylie@ruh-bath.swest.nhs.uk
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Workforce
Development Confederations
The new further
guidance for the Confederations is now available on the Department
of Health's website. Since publication of the October guidance. Ministers
have agreed that there will be 24 Workforce Development Confederations
and Regional Offices are currently seeking to fill the post of chief
executive of each of these Confederations.
Guidance: www.doh.gov.uk/workdevcon/index.htm
For further information
contact keith.baggs@doh.gsi.gov.uk
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NHS
Professionals - Flexible Organisations, Flexible Staff
NHS Professionals
was launched in November - a new direction and approach to managing
and providing temporary staffing services. NHS Professionals represents
a new national approach to raising standards, reducing costs and improving
working lives. NHS Professionals is a central feature of the wider
strategy to promote successful recruitment, retention and return to
practice in all staff groups.
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A
Health Service of all the talents: Review of workforce planning
results of consultation
This document
summarises the response to the consultation document A Health Service
of all the talents: Developing the NHS workforce. The Government's
plans for modernising the NHS workforce can be found in the document
Investment and reform for NHS Staff - Taking forward the NHS Plan
published on 15 February.
Link to document
www.doh.gov.uk/wfprconsult/index.htm
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Action
On Programmes
A further £75
million is being provided for funding the Action on
programmes in
2001/02. Regionally this will be allocated on a fair share basis,
thereafter health communities within a region are asked to bid for
funding. Allocations are likely to be in the region of £0.5m to £1m.
Successful schemes will demonstrate the objectives of the Action On
Programme and show a commitment to the principles of the NHS Plan.
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Pay
These Advance
Letters set out the agreement reached by the various Whitley Councils
on increases to national salary scales for the year 2001/2002. They
also give the increases to London allowances, effective for the years
1999/2000 and 2000/2001. A summary of the agreements is as follows:
- an across the
board increase of 3.7% or a minimum increase of £380 whichever is
the higher, linked to continued commitment by both sides to the
ongoing negotiations to modernise the NHS pay system.
- Increases to
London Allowances of 3.7 % to the rates of London Allowances with
effect from 1 April 2001.
- Increases to
on-call, standby and related allowances.
Ambulance Staff
- Advance Letter (AMB) 1/2001
Ambulance Officers
and Control Assistants - Advance Letter (AC) 2/2001
Clinical Scientists
and Hospital Optometrists - Advance Letter (SP) 1/2001
Speech and
Language Therapists and Speech and Language Therapists'
Assistants-
Advance Letter (SP) 2/2001
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Research
and Development Funding
A letter from
Professor Sir John Pattison to Chief Executives of NHS organizations
receiving R&D Funding has highlighted priorities and actions for
the reform programme to modernize NHS R&D funding in 2001-02 and
2002-03. It focuses on the need to ensure that R&D governance
systems are in place and to establish operational arrangements for
the new funding streams of NHS Support for Science and NHS Priorities
and Needs R&D. A timetable is included for how this is to be achieved.
www.doh.gov.uk/research/rd3/nhsrandd/newfunding.htm
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Intermediate
Care
This HSC/LAC sets
out guidance on the development of new intermediate care services
to be commissioned by the NHS and local authorities. Building
on services already in place, Health Authorities, Primary Care Groups/Trusts,
NHS Trusts and LAs should apply the attached guidance in planning
and developing new intermediate care services for 2001/02 and beyond.
www.doh.gov.uk/coinh.htm
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Better
Care Higher Standards Guidance for 2001/02
LAC 2001/6 HSC
2001/006
This LAC/HSC is
issued jointly by DH and DETR and sets out guidance and good practice
on the development of joint local Better Care Higher Standards charters
for people who need long term care, as well as their carers. Social
Services authorities with their NHS and housing authority partners
should apply the guidance and consider the good practice identified
when drawing up their charters for 2001/02 and beyond.
www.doh.gov.uk/longtermcare/index.htm
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National
Service Framework for Mental Health - Workforce Action team(WAT)
The third WAT
Newsletter giving more details about the work of the WAT has now been
placed on the NSF website -
www.doh.gov.uk/nsf/mentalhealth.htm
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Foot
and Mouth Outbreak
An initial guidance
note that provides the agreed MAFF line for all providers of essential
social care and health services. Covering visits by staff to farms,
general advice about disinfection and precautions needed.
MAFF Helpline
number 0845 0504 141
www.doh.gov.uk/scg/footandmouth.htm
www.maff.gov.uk/
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Use
of Internet for reporting of Social Services data for 2000-2001 to
DH
The list of statistical
returns that DH will be asking LAs with Social Services responsibilities
to complete for the year 2000 - 2001 and the timetable for return
has been placed on the Department's website. A copy has also been
sent to information contacts within each authority. The majority of
returns, including the Key Statistics return are due for return by
31 May 2001.
www.doh.gov.uk/public/pss2001ret.htm
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Reporting
of data electronically
The reporting
of Social Services statistics to DH via paper returns is cumbersome
and inefficient for everyone concerned. Validation of data is generally
not easy with paper returns, and this is a particular problem with
data extractions of the kind required for some of the larger and more
complex datasets. DH are therefore introducing this year a new set
of electronic options for the reporting of Social Services data. These
are:
1 A new Internet
Data Collection (IDC) Facility
2 Interactive
EXCEL spreadsheets
3 Disk
4 Word document
www.doh.gov.uk/lettertolasfeb2001.htm
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The
Carers and Disabled Children Act 2000
The Carers and
Disabled Children Act 2000 comes into force on 1 April 2001. Policy
and practice guidance is currently available on the Government web
site www.carers.gov.uk. This meets the Department of Health commitment
that guidance will be available one month before implementation to
better enable social services departments to plan for implementation
of the Act.
- Guidance will
be available from 1 April 2001 via
- Fax 01623 724
524
- Write to Department
of Health, PO Box 777, London SE1 6XH
- Email doh@prologistics.co.uk
- Tel. 08701 555 455
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Survey
of NHS childcare provisions
As part of the
NHS childcare strategy the DH has conducted a scooping study to assess
the level of childcare currently available at Trusts.
For further information
contact tig.calvert@doh.gsi.gov.uk
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NATIONAL
SERVICE FRAMEWORK REGIONAL LEADS
National Service
Frameworks have been set up in the areas of Cancer, Coronary Heart
Disease, Mental Health and Older People. For further information on
the work of the National Service Frameworks in your area the following
people are useful contact points:
MENTAL HEALTH
NSF LEADS
East Regional
Office: Graham Shelton
London Regional
Office: Melanie Walker
North West Regional
Office: Nick Morris
North & Yorkshire
Regional Office: Sally Prescott
South Eastern
Regional Office: Jane Boyfield
South Western
Regional Office: Amanda Hedley
Trent Regional
Office: Alice Olliver
West Midlands
Regional Office: David Clarke
CORONARY HEART
DISEASE NSF LEADS
East Regional
Office: Celia Duff
Jan Goffin
Joanna Yellon
London Regional
Office: Liz Lowe
North West Regional
Office: Leigh Griffin
Heather Grimbaldeston
Alison Rylands
North & Yorkshire
Regional Office: Bev Bookless
Pat Blain
South East Regional
Office: Hilary Angwin
Fiona Henniker
Max Kammerling
Sian Therese
South West Regional
Office: Pamela Akerman
Roger Paynter
Trent Regional
Office: Chris Kenny
Jane Warder
West Midlands
Regional Office: Janet Baker
Karen Helliwell
Paul Maubach
Jane Powell
OLDER PEOPLE
NSF LEADS
East Regional
Office: Val Harrison
Amanda Sherlock
London Regional
Office: Jane Carrier
North West Regional
Office: Mick Dolan
North & Yorkshire
Regional Office: Marilyn Ekers
Social Care Group
Ulric Murray
Social Care Region
Keith Hiscock
Elizabeth Lowe
Fran McCabe
Allan Ricketts
Jessica Slater
South East Regional
Office: William Vineall
South West Regional
Office: Ian Plaister
Trent Regional
Office: Amanda Forrest
West Midlands
Regional Office: Sally Burton
DIABETES NSF
LEADS
East Regional
Office: Sandra Betterton
London Regional
Office: Margaret Guy
North West Regional
Office: Mahmood Adil
North Yorkshire
Regional Office: Pauline Fox
South East Regional
Office: Max Kammerlin
South West Regional
Office: Julia Verne
Trent Regional
Office: Anne McConville
West Midlands
Regional Office: John Kemm
National Assembly
for Wales: Jane Wilkinson
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AHPs
on NHS Plan Taskforces
Twelve taskforces
have been established to oversee implementation of the NHS Plan:
- Cancer Taskforce
- Workforce Taskforce
- CHD Taskforce
- Capital And
Capacity Taskforce
- Childrens Taskforce
- Inequalities
And Public Health Taskforce
- Mental Health
Taskforce
- Older People
Taskforce
- Quality Taskforce
- Access Taskforce
- Performance
Working Group Taskforce
- Communications
Taskforce
Allied health
professionals are represented on these as follows:
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CANCER TASKFORCE
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Kim Fell
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Therapy Radiographer
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Nottingham City Hospital
Nottingham
Tel - 0115 628049
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WORKFORCE TASKFORCE
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Jill Simpson
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Physiotherapist/Rehabilitation Services Manager
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Hope Hospital
Salford
Tel - 0161 787 1064
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CHILDRENS TASKFORCE
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Felicity Parsons
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Speech and Language Therapist
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Sandwell Healthcare NHS Trust
West Midlands
Tel - 0121 607 7986
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INEQUALITIES AND PUBLIC HEALTH TASKFORCE
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Diane Talbot
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Community Development Dietetian
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Linwood Community Centre
Leicester
Tel - 0116 2255276
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OLDER PEOPLE TASKFORCE
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Kay East
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Occuptational Therapist
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William Harvey Hospital
Ashford
Tel - 01233 616113
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Phil Gray
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Chief Executive
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Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
London
Tel - 020 7 306 6666
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Liz Sargeant
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Physiotherapist/General Manager of Rehabilitation Services
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Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust
Huntingdon
Tel - 01480 363594
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ACCESS TASKFORCE
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Sally Newman
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Physiotherapist
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Withington Hospital
Manchester
Tel - 0161 291 3409
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PERFORMANCE WORKING GROUP TASKFORCE
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Natalie Beswetherick
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Physiotherapist/Chair Allied Health Professions Forum
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C/o College of Occupational Therapy
London
Tel - 01242 273 039
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COMMUNICATIONS TASKFORCE
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Jane Tonkin
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Director of Communications
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Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
Tel - 020 7306 6698
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